£90,000 “surf pods” go on sale in Boscombe, Bournemouth

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These Sixties-style beach huts have been transformed into new-wave hideaways by Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway

The weather for the launch of the country’s most stylised beach huts — or, rather, pods — was quintessentially British. Dark clouds swept up the Channel, and by early afternoon Boscombe, an area of Bournemouth undergoing an £11 million makeover, was being lashed by rain. But inside her beach pod, Liz Carter could not have been happier. “I feel so excited — like a child in a candy store,” she says.

Carter and her husband, Brett, lost no time in celebrating their purchase of a £90,000 double pod in Boscombe’s reinvigorated Overstrand complex, featured in Bricks&Mortar last year. Safely out